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Every open tile job appears in one list sorted by install date, region and crew availability. Unassigned work stands out before it turns into an empty slot on the calendar.
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Tile Installer Management App for General Managers
A tile installer management app gives a general manager one live view of open jobs, crew assignments and margin on every install. SIZ Group designs and builds it as a custom iOS and Android app, with mobile apps starting at $4,500.
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How a tile installer management app fits the tools you already use
Most tile companies already run several systems at once: a calendar for crew days, a spreadsheet of open bids, an accounting package for invoices and a group text thread for everything else. The manager app does not ask you to abandon them. It reads job and schedule data from those sources and puts every open job into one installer work queue that the general manager can check before the morning meeting.
Field service platforms such as Jobber and Housecall Pro already handle quoting and invoicing for many contractors, so we check first whether a connection to one of them can replace a custom build. If your books sit in QuickBooks, job cost totals can flow across, so margins show up without anyone retyping receipts. We confirm which tools are live before we scope the work.
02
Rules and standards that shape the build
Few legal rules govern a dashboard itself, but tile work carries two that matter. Cutting porcelain and natural stone releases respirable crystalline silica, and the OSHA silica standard expects dust controls and a written exposure plan for those tasks. Records of which crew cut what, and where, are simple to keep in the app and hard to rebuild after an inspection.
Crew and payroll data is personal information. Pay rates, hours and home addresses should sit behind role-based access, so a lead installer sees their own crew and never the company payroll. Subcontracted setters also need their insurance certificates tracked against each job, because an expired certificate is a problem on the day, not on paper.
- Limit pay rate fields to the owner and payroll roles
- Attach silica control notes to the job record, not a text thread
- Track each subcontractor's insurance expiry date in the app
- Apply the same access rules to job photos as to the job itself
03
Busy seasons and how the queue should flex
Tile demand rises in spring and early fall, when homeowners renovate kitchens and bathrooms before the holidays or the rainy season sets in. Commercial fit-outs follow the general contractor's schedule, which can drop a large lobby job on the calendar with little warning. A manager may go from six open jobs on a quiet day to twenty on a busy one, and the queue has to show that load without hiding which jobs are slipping.
A tile crew scheduling app should handle peaks by letting the manager filter unassigned jobs by install date and region, then drop each one onto a crew. Crew assignment software should check that crew for large-format or heated-floor experience before it accepts the drop. Weather is the other swing factor. Rain or a slab that has not cured pushes whole days back, so a manager should be able to re-sequence an entire day in one step.
What you get
Key features
Crew assignment board
Drag a job onto a crew, check whether the setter has large-format experience, and see a clear warning when the day is already full.
One-step re-sequencing
When rain or an uncured slab moves a day, re-sequence the affected jobs at once and notify each crew lead of the change.
Job cost and margin reports
Materials, labor hours and subcontractor invoices roll up per job, so margins can be compared by job type and by crew.
Role-based access
Owners, managers and lead installers see only the data their role needs, and every assignment change is logged with a name and time.
04
What the general manager needs to provide
The build starts with the work itself. We need your crew roster, the job types each crew takes on, and the stages a job moves through, from measure and bid through setting, grouting and the final walk. Your existing job numbering rules should carry over, so the reports line up with the invoices your customers already receive.
We also need read access to the calendar and accounting system, and a sample of recent jobs with their final costs so we can test the margin logic against real numbers. Access is granted for the build and removed at launch. Anything you would rather keep out of the app stays out of scope, and that decision is written into the agreement.
- A crew list with each crew's job types
- Your job stages and numbering rules
- Read access to the calendar and accounting system
- Ten recent jobs with their final material and labor costs
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Mistakes we would steer tile companies away from
Owners often ask for a wall of colored graphs first, yet a general manager who cannot spot tomorrow's unassigned tile jobs within seconds will go back to the whiteboard. We start with the queue and add reports only after the team has used the app through a full busy period.
Another is treating every job as the same size. A bathroom floor and a large commercial lobby need different crew hours, material plans and sign-off steps, so the app should carry job size as a field from the first release. Skipping that makes the margin reports look healthy while the big jobs quietly lose money.
Teams also overbuild the first version, adding invoicing, inventory and customer messaging in one go. Each extra module adds testing time and a second place where the data can drift out of step with the schedule.
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How to tell whether the app is working
Measure the numbers the app should move, and compare them with the same period before launch. Track the count of unassigned job days, which should fall, and the share of jobs that start on the planned install date. Count the hours between a job being sold and its first crew assignment, which should shorten as managers rely on the queue.
Job costing for tile contractors is the figure an owner cares about most, and the app should show it by job type. A field operations reporting app earns its keep when a manager can see whether large-format porcelain pays as well as small mosaic work. If none of these figures change after a full season of use, the process needs redesign before any new features are added.
How long does a tile installer management app take to build?+
The timeline depends on how many systems we connect and how many job stages you run. We confirm the schedule in writing during the free scoping call, so you know the dates before any build work starts. Nothing starts until the scope and price are agreed.
Can the app work with the scheduling tool we already use?+
In many cases, yes. We first check whether your calendar or field service platform offers an integration we can use. Where none exists, we describe the trade-off and the cost of a custom connection in the written scope.
Will my lead installers be able to see payroll?+
Not unless you give them that role. Pay rates and hours sit behind a separate permission. A lead installer sees only the crew and jobs assigned to them, which keeps the payroll figures private.
What happens after the app goes live?+
Post-launch support is available for bug fixes, small changes to job stages and updates that keep the app working when iOS or Android releases change. Support terms are agreed in writing alongside the original scope.
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Book a free scoping call, and we will confirm the scope and price in writing before any build begins.